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Midshipman Harry Brewer, played by Larry Bramire, is also fascinating as a man tortured by his conscience and by the ghosts of the dead, as is Chloe Leamon's Dabby Bryant--a woman with a will to live--and Sheila Ferrini's embittered Liz Morden, a convict with the shadow of the gallows upon...
...dark-eyed jazz zealot named Marili Morden, proprietor of Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop, who finally found the Kid. He had been working in the mail room of Los Angeles' Sante Fe railway station. For nine years his trombone had been collecting dust, but he had not lost the old tailgate technique...
...Zealot Morden got him a job on Orson Welles's radio program. Then, with the help of Washington's 27-year-old Nesuhi Ertegun, erudite, diminutive son of the late Turkish Ambassador, she founded the Crescent Record Co. Zealot Ertegun is passionately certain that New Orleans jazz is a genuine art form, and America's chief contribution to culture. His most obvious reason for founding the company was to get the Kid back on wax. (Ory's 1921 Sunshine recordings-Ory's Creole Trombone, Society Blues-were probably the first Negro-made records...
Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
...forget this war? Just for a little while. Just for a little while, can't we talk together like people -together?" She looked at him for a long time and smiled. "You don't know who I am, do you?" she said. She was Alex Morden's widow, but she did not say so to Lieut. Tonder. She pitied him at last, stroked his hand, stroked his cheek. "God keep you," he said as he left. Then Molly Morden realized that her feeling of pity was an impermissible weakness that might lead to disaster. Others offered...